For 400 years Rome ruled Britain, combating invasions and uprisings and leaving behind a legacy that persists to the present day. Packed with bite-sized facts, places of interest, and colorful ...(Read More)

Abundantly illustrated with 134 color plates, additional figures, and captioned frontispieces for each chapter, this book traces how social attitudes and historical events in the Roman world—slavery ...(Read More)

Widely regarded as one of the most important collections of Egyptian artifacts in the world, the Myers Collection of Egyptian Art at Eton College possesses a cache of nearly 3,000 artifacts, ...(Read More)

In her research on the historical Jesus, documentary filmmaker Lena Einhorn uncovered a startling figure in the narratives of the Jewish revolt by 1st-century historian Flavius Josephus, which ...(Read More)

Much as he did in The Past From Above, Georg Gerster uses aerial photography to create a new perspective on historical sites, and Greece boasts an impressive number of iconic structures and ...(Read More)

Because so much of what we know of the ancient world comes from Herodotus, writing in the 5th century BC, he will always remain, as Cicero deemed him, the Father of Historians. At the same time, a ...(Read More)

Starting with a barracks escape of some 70 men, armed with kitchen knives, the revolt led by the Thracian gladiator Spartacus in 73 BC grew into a full-scale rebellion against Rome, the most famous ...(Read More)

The frequent disregard of historical and social contexts by many scholars of wisdom often leads to the distortion of this literature, posits biblical scholar Leo Perdue, which transforms the relevant ...(Read More)

"Suns when they sink can rise again, / But we, when our brief light has shone, / Must sleep through the long night ... // Nobody can do evil to us / By keeping count of our kisses." So wrote Catullus ...(Read More)

The Athens of Socrates's time is regarded as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet this city put to death its most famous philosopher, presumably because its citizens ...(Read More)

In the approximately 2800 years since Homer composed The Iliad, the seminal epic has been repeatedly scrutinized for its historical basis; here, Steven Sora argues compellingly that Homer's ...(Read More)

The magnetism of the man known as Alexander the Great, along with that of his father, Philip of Macedon, remains almost tangible thousands of years later, felt by people in all times; scholars of ...(Read More)